My projects for the semester have been archived on the homepage:
For each of the projects I put up:
… optimized versions have been uploaded along with their source code. To see their source code, simply load them, right-click on the Flash player area, and choose “View source”.
A lot of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) theory and user interface work was put into CalMap. In lieu of any action on the CalMap front, I thought I’d introduce another blog I have created that chronicles my coursework in HCI-related courses. Many of these courses are taught in the School of Information at UC Berkeley (a.k.a. the “iSchool”), and that is where I’ll be posting:
http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/simontan/
Many of the posts there are required by the courses I’m taking, so you’ll see (forced) posts more often!
P.S. The downside of a blog hosted by the School of Information is that I am a lot more restricted server-wise. That is, I am not free to do things such as embed any old Flash object I want, like I can do here:
Quite possibly could serve as the inspiration for CalMap; but I swear I didn’t see this comic before!
I am happy to announce the immediate deployment of the latest release of CalMap. The UC Berkeley mapping solution just got a lot faster, slicker, usable, and CSS-compliant.
This new version is based on the latest version of the Google Web Toolkit. In honour of their milestone 1.4 release (half a year in the making), I dub this CalMap release to be version 1.4 as well! GWT 1.4 brings us lots of performance improvements and new interface widgets which we have used to great effect. Check out the new SuggestBox (autocompletion), for example!
I invite you to play with this release, and let us know of any bugs that may have sprung up with the upgrade. An issues list is maintained at our Google Code site.
See Screenshot.
About future updates: Since GWT is now open-source and actively worked on, you might expect a new release of CalMap soon after each release of GWT. We will try to add functionality to CalMap when we have time, but the GWT release cycle is a better indicator of the frequency of CalMap updates.
Ah, if only Microsoft made an Live Local API, so we could actually use Bird’s Eye View with CalMap. Oh, so they do! But is it compatible with the Google Web Toolkit? Probably not. Maybe in the far future we’ll give it a shot. I mean, it’d be nice to have shots like this:
